ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2213, 17 October 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

AUCKLAND, Oot. 16. About midnight the police received a telephone message asking them to send an ambulance to the office of tho tramway electrical engineer. Though the office was lighted, they received no response to knocking. On entering they found Andrew Wilkes, employed b.y tlio Tram Company ■as electrical engineer, dead, reclining in a chair, with a bullet through bis head, and a revolver on the floor. Wilkes, a young man, had been in the company’s employ for five months. He hul been suffering from influenza in a severe form.

A little girl aged four years, -lie daughter of S. W. House, a resident of Atangere, while playing v. ith other children, fell over the verandah with the cord of the verandah blind around her neck. Attention was promptly directed to the accident by the cries of the other children. The cord was cut and a dootor sent for, but life was extinct. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. IG.

Police-Inspector Gillies received a telegram from Lincoln to-day stating that Wiliam Cooper, 80 years of age, had been found dead in bed there this morning. Cooper was at work as usual yesterday. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause of death.

Frank Leslie Benny, the vistim of yesterday’s shooting accident ’who was taken to the hospital, is progressing favorably. The bullet which had lodged in his head has been extracted. Yesterday the police recovered the ljodv of Claude Rooney, the second of the' brothers who were drowned in Lake Forsyth on September 29th. The body was in a forward state of decomposition. AUCKLAND, Oct. 16.

An elderly man named Benjamin Clifton Paul, a plumber residing, in Grey Lynn, was knocked down and killed by a train while crossing Ponsonby road to-night.